Strategy Lesson Plan
Time: 30 min.

Co-Teachers: Daniel Sharpsteen & Lance Roehlke
Instructional Strategy: Metaphorical Expression

TPA Approved Lesson Plan Template


Desired Results
Relevant Minnesota or Nat’l Content Standards:
-Explain how monetary decisions at the national level (such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the U.S.) affect households, businesses, and governments.
Learning Objective: Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain:
-Students will understand what money is, how it works, how the idea started, and what it does for society.
Assessment Evidence
What do you want your students to know?
-What the principles of Money are, what are its functions and its desirable characteristics.
-Understand the start of the use of Money.
What do you want students to be able to do?
-Explain what makes money, money.
-Demonstrate the functions of money and how it came to be used.
Group Accountability (Formative)
How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives?
Group activity acting out the original Goldsmith Bank cycle.
Individual Accountability (Summative)
How will you check to see if individuals have acquired the knowledge/skills you expected them to learn?
Learning Plan
What key vocabulary/language will students need to know to meet the learning objective?
-Money

-Liquidity
How will you teach this key vocabulary to enable students to meet the learning objective?

-Lecture on ideas behind money and show through activity
What is the Essential/Guiding Question(s) for this Lesson? (It should correlate to your learning objective.)
-What is Money?

-How does Money work?

-How did Money start?

-What does Money do for society?
How will you differentiate for all the learners (ELL, Sp. Ed., poverty, gifted, etc.) in your class?
Differentiation Options: questions, stems, sentence frames, strategies, etc.
Materials/Resources Required:
-White board and markers
-Paper
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Method/Strategy
(What will you do? What do you expect students to do? Include set induction and closing.)
Time Allotment




Introduce and Outline day
2 min
Lecture on Basic Principles of Money. Include students in the building a portfolio of assets.
5-7 min
Lecture on Basic Functions of Money. Include students on comparison to Barter system.
5-7 min
Lecture on Desirable Characteristics of Money.
3-5 min
Activity
10-15 min
Final group discussion
Whatever’s left